84th Bounty [video]

[ruthless_hunter]

[Lockdown watches a vid screen showing what's going on outside. Some of the bushes and trees are missing branches from the falling rocks.]

I gotta say that I've only ever seen this out in space. This is why it pays to live in a ship built for this kinda thing.

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[candothat]

You have lived on a spaceship?

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[ruthless_hunter]

Still do.

[Lifts his device and points it over his shoulder to show his workshop.]

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[candothat]

I did not know that there were starships in the City! Did you find it, or did you bring it with you?

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[ruthless_hunter]

It's mine. Not as if I'd fit in the apartments anyway.

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[candothat]

How did you get it into the City?

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[ruthless_hunter]

Had to make an emergency landing.

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[candothat]

You must be a good pilot to have successfully landed a ship in a new dimension.

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[ruthless_hunter]

[Snorts] I put the thing on autopilot and went to take a stasis nap. The emergency alarm woke me up and next thing I know, here I am.

But I'm still a damn good pilot to have landed the ship with failin' power and not hit anything.

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[candothat]

Not hitting things counts for something, yes. Congratulations on not destroying large parts of the City with your spaceship.

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[ruthless_hunter]

I've been flyin' ships since your people were goo.

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[candothat]

Do you mean that, or is that a figure of speech?

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[ruthless_hunter]

I'm seven million stellar-cycles old. Been kickin' aft since before most planets learned to make fire.

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[candothat]

You look very good for your age. What are you made of? Inorganic material?

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[ruthless_hunter]

If this is your idea of askin' me out, I gotta warn ya', I've tried humans and I was too much for 'em.

And I'm made of Cybertronian alloys. Sterner stuff than Earth metal.

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[candothat]

Eh? Ay--no, sorry! I have never met a being so old, is all. Cybertronian?

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[ruthless_hunter]

[Has a small laugh at the human's expense.]

It's my home planet. Nothin' but robots, and we know how to make ourselves last.

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[candothat]

Self-replicating robots! That is amazing--and can your people trace their manufacture back to an organic creator? Or is that an inappropriate question?

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[ruthless_hunter]

Organic creator? [Scoffs.] Meatbags don't know slag 'bout making Cybertronians.

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[candothat]

Slag?

No, sorry, you would be far more knowledgeable about your people than I ever may be.

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[ruthless_hunter]

Most of us come from factories or other bots with too much time on their hands.